Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bluebeard 's wife , about to be killed by her ferocious husband for disobeying his instructions , desperately plays for time as she knows her brothers are on their way to visit her . |
| 2 | The alliance between the groups which exchange women under a sister-exchange marriage rule or under a rule which specifies marriage between a man and his father 's sister 's daughter persists through time because of the felt obligation to arrange , at a future date , the counterpart of a marriage which has already taken place . |
| 3 | 1792 It being Represented to this Meeting that their is unlawful combinations and Meetings held by the Weavers in the Island , particularly in the Parish of Kilchoman , for the purpose of shortening or cutting off the usual measure called the Islay Ell , which has for time Immemorial been the Standard Measure given by the Weavers with every Species of their Manufacture , and for reducing the measure to the English yard , and for continueing the prices for the English yard as high as that for the Islay Ell |
| 4 | Suilven , that finest of all Sutherland mountains , is described as : ‘ One sandstone chord that holds up time in space . ’ |
| 5 | The reason behind this assumption is that the force of gravitational contraction becomes stronger as the collapse proceeds and the gap between its power and the resistance offered by any surviving internal pressures widens with time . |
| 6 | However , one major difference has been that the mind of an individual develops with time and becomes better at the tasks it undertakes , whereas computers , with certain limited exceptions , perform at the same level of ability until replaced by a better machine or a better program . |
| 7 | He counts in time with each step : one-two-three-four , following a pace behind Babur . |
| 8 | And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool , dark attic , which the writer nervously visits from time to time ; and yes , oh dear , while he 's been hard at work downstairs , up in the attic there are puckering skins , warning spots , a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes . |
| 9 | Rather than wait until a discourse is finished , and then analyse it as a whole , from outside and with the benefit of hindsight , the ethnomethodologists try to understand how it unfolds in time . |
| 10 | Since discourse unfolds in time , it seems natural that time-deictic words can be used to refer to portions of the discourse ; thus analogously to last week and next Thursday , we have in the last paragraph and in the next Chapter . |
| 11 | The nature and degree of insanity which will afford a defence to a criminal charge has from time to time been a matter of considerable discussion . |
| 12 | For my part I am not condemning , I am illustrating the fact that the Christian symbiosis between nature and humankind , expressed so well in the Bible , has from time to time been replaced by man 's domination of nature with disastrous consequences for both . |
| 13 | In common with all insurance companies , Legal & General has from time to time to adjust its premium terms to take into account the changing nature and frequency of household insurance claims . |
| 14 | Though small in size and numbers , Border has from time to time been good enough to thump the New Zealand All-Blacks and the British Lions at rugby , and to produce such cricketers as Peter Kirsten , Hylton Ackerman , Ken McEwan and the brothers Greig . |
| 15 | His nasogastric tube has from time to time to be removed or re-inserted . |
| 16 | The firm has from time to time various secondees both at the Listing Groups of the Stock Exchange and with the Panel . |
| 17 | The search for training which fits this description in the management of education is hindered in two ways : it has long been an area for tension between theorists and practitioners and it has from time to time been exposed to management models from fields where practice and purpose are very different from those of education . |
| 18 | If you ca n't hear me at the back because my voice drops from time to time then shout away because I 'm not always aware of how well it carries . |
| 19 | It seems that there are well-defined laws that govern how the universe and everything in it develops in time . |
| 20 | The answer he got was in the line that Frank looked uninspired in training ( well as ‘ inspired ’ as Deano looks from time to time in the games i guess Deano most look — very — inspired in training ) . |
| 21 | She lives in time : Hugo and myself out of it . |
| 22 | Erm , we would think of others , would n't we , not only do we have our own National Anthem , but we have other songs that that arouses from time to time . |
| 23 | And he 's prepared to make ‘ harsh decisions ‘ to ensure he gets the return he wants in time for Saturday 's League match against Southampton at The Dell . |
| 24 | Like the best wines , distinguished architecture matures over time : 50 years from now , Lloyds will be championed by as yet unborn conservationists , fought over in the media and ultimately listed Grade One . |
| 25 | The key point made by these analyses of team or group development is that effectiveness ( see below ) is an outcome which develops over time , as the group begin to understand what is required of them and how they can utilise the knowledge , skills and attributes of the individual members in fulfilling group and individual goals . |
| 26 | As Tuckman 's analysis shows , cohesiveness develops over time . |
| 27 | Finally , it is important to note that however tight an exclusion clause may be , it will not prevent the introduction of new fiduciary duties into the relationship between firm and customer as it develops over time . |
| 28 | Second , so many features of our own constitutional practices are debated one at a time in just this way , that it is implausible to claim conventionalism as a good interpretation of the process by which our legal culture shifts and develops over time . |
| 29 | Liquidity preference theory , on the other hand , recognizes the possibility that the forward rate may contain some element of liquidity premium which declines over time as the period approaches , so that . |
| 30 | Whilst it is intuitively obvious that the utility of most things declines over time , it is more difficult to identify the extent of that decline over a given period . |